Funny current and cardiac rhythm: Insights from HCN knockout and transgenic mouse models

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 JUL, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bucchi, Annalisa ^a   Barbuti, Andrea ^a   DiFrancesco, Dario ^a   Baruscotti, Mirko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiac pacemaking; HCN KO mouse models; Sinoatrial node

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866466217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00240     Document Type: Article

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